Sorry it's been so long since our last post. Once we got to Beijing, our days became much longer. We are getting up at 6 a.m. to start our tours around 8 a.m. and not getting home till close to 8 p.m. so there is little time to blog. We left Chengdu on Wednesday after spending the previous day at JinLi Street and visiting WuFu's Temple (two pictures above). Tuesday night we went back to Vanka to have dinner at Ou and Sonnia's house. Sonnia was working so Ou fixed us an amazing dinner. Chengdu men are very good at cleaning and cooking ... start that trend in America? We got to Beijing Wednesday afternoon and were picked up by our tour guide and driver. They were very sweet so we were excited to begin our tour the next day. We spent the evening with Sara's cousin Sunny. She was so sweet and she is the same age as me and teaches primary school. We had a lot in common and had a wonderful dinner together. Our 1st tour started on Thursday. We visited the the Forbidden City, Heaven Temple and saw a show that evening (Peking Opera). It was a ton of walking and by the end of the show, we were exhausted. Yesterday we went to the Great Wall. We went to a section that was less visited so it wasn't too crowded. Shawn and I walked the entire section (about 6 miles). We then visited the Ding Tomb (an emperor who ruled during the Ming Dynasty) which contained a huge underground palace built for his final resting place. It was so interesting and the pictures we put up are only a tiny piece of what we saw.
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